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Diffstat (limited to 'src/dired.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/dired.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/dired.c b/src/dired.c index c2c099f0a5f..ef729df5d2b 100644 --- a/src/dired.c +++ b/src/dired.c @@ -923,11 +923,12 @@ Elements of the attribute list are: 8. File modes, as a string of ten letters or dashes as in ls -l. 9. An unspecified value, present only for backward compatibility. 10. inode number, as a nonnegative integer. -11. Filesystem device number, as an integer. +11. Filesystem device identifier, as an integer or a cons cell of integers. Large integers are bignums, so `eq' might not work on them. On most filesystems, the combination of the inode and the device -number uniquely identifies the file. +identifier uniquely identifies the file. This unique file identification +is provided by the access function `file-attribute-file-identifier'. On MS-Windows, performance depends on `w32-get-true-file-attributes', which see. |